If you are like me Christmas is your favorite holiday. I enjoy family, friends and food (Three Fs). I, especially, look forward to making Belizean black fruit cake. I love fruit cake so much that 6 to 8 weeks before Christmas I start to soak the dried fruits for the cake. Here’s how I do it:

Soursop or Guanabana is a green fruit grown primarily in Belize, Central America and the West Indies. Its green skin is prickly. Don’t eat the skin but do eat the creamy white inside core. You can find it online, at stores like Whole Foods, Latin and/or Caribbean markets. If you can find the actual fruit some places sell the core/pulp in frozen packets. Here’s a Soursop smoothie recipe: